Typically this is the type of show I would be all over. I just wonder if they can smooth out some of the roles (some of the line delivery felt like a high school play to me) and I wonder if they can keep the production value so high.

I'm not really concerned by the acting or plot or anything. As long as there's hanky panky in the opera box, the jaundiced guy from Downton Abbey, and at least three heaving bosoms per episode, you know it'll be good.

I just finished reading Dracula and watching Francis Ford Coppola's Bram Stoker's Dracula, then watched this. If you drew a Venn diagram of the book and the show, the only overlap would be the names of some of the characters. But it's still better than Keanu Reeves.

I'm trying to reserve judgment until I see more. I kinda like the concept so far, but I don't know if I like that they've almost entirely ignored the source material. And some of the twists in the plot (e.g. D being against the order of the dragon rather than with them, the other-life knowledge of Mina) seem to be based on the part of the movie plot that wasn't in the book. It's almost as if the people writing/producing the series aren't even aware that there's a book.

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I'm trying to reserve judgment until I see more. I kinda like the concept so far, but I don't know if I like that they've almost entirely ignored the source material. And some of the twists in the plot (e.g. D being against the order of the dragon rather than with them, the other-life knowledge of Mina) seem to be based on the part of the movie plot that wasn't in the book. It's almost as if the people writing/producing the series aren't even aware that there's a book.

Yeah, since the Coppola movie the past-life love seems to be thought of as canonical; I think that might have even been influenced by Dark Shadows!